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2013-01-24; vol. 78 # 16 - Thursday, January 24, 2013 78 FR 5133 - Technical Corrections Regarding the Methods of Collection of Certain User Fees by CBP
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Final rule. This final rule is effective on January 24, 2013. 19 CFR Part 24 Summary This document amends the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulations in order to clarify that any applicable Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) user fee, which is called an Agricultural Quarantine and Inspection (AQI) user fee, for commercial trucks will be collected by CBP upon arrival into the United States at the same time that CBP collects its portion of this user fee and to reflect certain administrative changes pertaining to the collection of user fees. The regulation also clarifies that transponders have replaced decals for commercial truck user fee purposes and indicates that the Internet portal through which the public obtains decals and transponders has been renamed the “Decal and Transponder Online Procurement System (DTOPS).” In addition, the user fee decal program, certain administrative aspects of which had previously been managed by a private bank under a contract with CBP, is currently being administered entirely within CBP, and this document updates the addresses to which applicable forms and payments are to be mailed as a result of this change. Finally, this document amends the applicable regulations to provide for certain updated CBP form numbers, and to make nomenclature changes reflecting the transfer of CBP to the Department of Homeland Security. It should be noted that the amendments set forth in this document will not result in any change to the amount of the actual user fees.
2012-12-10; vol. 77 # 237 - Monday, December 10, 2012 77 FR 73306 - Technical Corrections to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Regulations
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Final rule. The final rule is effective December 10, 2012. 19 CFR Parts 4, 24, 101, 102, 127, 159, 161 and 177 Summary U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) periodically reviews its regulations to ensure that they are current, correct, and consistent. Through this review process, CBP has discovered a number of discrepancies. This document amends various sections of title 19 of the Code of Federal Regulations (19 CFR) to correct those discrepancies.
2012-12-06; vol. 77 # 235 - Thursday, December 6, 2012 77 FR 72715 - Informal Entry Limit and Removal of a Formal Entry Requirement
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Final rule. Effective January 7, 2013. 19 CFR Parts 10, 24, 102, 123, 128, 141, 143, 145, and 148 Summary Currently, for any merchandise valued over $2,000, CBP requires importers to provide a surety bond, complete CBP form 7501, and pay a minimum of $25 in Merchandise Processing Fees (MPF). The final rule increases the limit, from $2,000 to $2,500, for which merchandise may qualify for an “informal entry”, thereby eliminating the need for a surety bond, expediting the customs clearance process, and reducing the required MPF amount to $2 (assuming the entries are filed electronically). CBP is increasing the informal entry limit to mitigate the effects of inflation and in addition, to meet a commitment of the Beyond the Border Initiative between the United States and Canada, to increase and harmonize the value thresholds to $2,500 for expedited customs clearance from the current levels of $2,000 for the United States and $1,600 for Canada. This document also removes the language requiring formal entry for certain articles that were formerly subject to absolute quotas under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing because CBP no longer needs to require formal entries for these articles. This document also makes a technical conforming amendment to reflect a recent statutory amendment that increased the ad valorem Merchandise Processing Fee (MPF) from 0.21 percent to 0.3464 percent. Finally, this document makes non-substantive editorial and nomenclature changes.
2012-10-18; vol. 77 # 202 - Thursday, October 18, 2012 77 FR 64031 - United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Final rule. Final rule effective November 19, 2012. 19 CFR Parts 10, 24, 162, 163, and 178 Summary This document adopts as a final rule, with one change, interim amendments to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulations which were published in the Federal Register on November 3, 2011, as CBP Dec. 11-22, to implement the preferential tariff treatment and other customs-related provisions of the United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement.
2012-09-26; vol. 77 # 187 - Wednesday, September 26, 2012 77 FR 59064 - United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Interim regulations; solicitation of comments. Interim rule effective September 26, 2012; comments must be received by November 26, 2012. 19 CFR Parts 10, 24, 162, 163, and 178 Summary This rule amends the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulations on an interim basis to implement the preferential tariff treatment and other customs-related provisions of the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement entered into by the United States and the Republic of Colombia.
